Usually means: Zone with no light penetration.
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  2. aphotic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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Definitions from Wiktionary (aphotic)

adjective:  Having no light, especially no sunlight; specifically (biology, oceanography) describing that part of deep lakes and oceans where less than one per cent of sunlight penetrates and where photosynthesis is not possible.

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